A Woman’s Resistance
A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…
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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy
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On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)
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Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”
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A Woman’s Resistance
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Haggadot at Bookhouse
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Sarai e Hagar
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Join Sullaluna Bookclub!
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Bookhouse Musings: Making Books.
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The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: Sources and Interpretations
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Swahili Lit Festival
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Features
Primo Levi in Swahili
A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…
WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!
The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…
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Katja
It is a first hand testimony, in all its unique flavor and idiosyncratic detail, tracing the ark of a life that started in war torn Italy, continuing with an American…
The Rosselli Case
Among the most courageous figures of Italian antifascism, Carlo and Nello Rosselli co-founded Giustizia e Libertà. Carlo was among the first to grasp the importance of the Spanish Civil War…
J-Italy
J-ITALY, conceived by Centro Primo Levi in collaboration with ENIT (The Italian National Tourism Board) and designed by Jonathan Wajskol, is a newly created portal that provides a dynamic guide to…
Il Coro del Tempio Maggiore
On March 17th, 1861 Vittorio Emanuele II was declared King of Italy, uniting seven states under the Savoy crown. It was not until September 20th, 1870, when the Piemontese troops…
A Civil War
Claudio Pavone, Peter Levy (Translator), A Civil War, Verso, 2013 ‘Pavone’s study of the struggle between the Resistance and the Fascist Republican regime, A Civil War, has…
Sarajevo, 1941-1945
Emily Greble, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler’s Europe, Cornell University Press, 2011 On April 15, 1941, Sarajevo fell to Germany’s 16th Motorized Infantry…